Why subscribe? 🇪🇺🚀
This is a newsletter for people who are pissed off that Europe is losing.
Since many years we have been witnessing the decline of European tech, economy and political strength. The effectiveness of our values is being put in doubt and our future in the global system is being challenged in an increasingly antagonistic world.
We might have gotten used to it, but it is not inevitable.
We believe that to reverse this trend we need to to facilitate the most thrilling discussion and enable grass-roots action. We need to discover and discuss: our technology, business, economy, history and culture. 🦾🏭🏛️
What will you get?
Every week we will deliver emails with 2 types of articles & podcasts to let you discover Europe and share your opinion with folks like you:
Good morning Europe 🌅: overview of the news and discussions across the continent to align with what keeps people talking .
The state of the union 🇪🇺: Deep dive on a specific topic that needs to be reformed to strengthen the union and make it more competitive.
What do we stand for?
The Europragmatist has no specific political affiliation.
Political ideas need to adapt to the technological and socioeconomic context of their times. However, in a time of historic changes our current political ideologies (such as the division between “left-right” or “federalists-eurosceptics”) do not seem able to provide a framework for prosperity, security and progress.
Instead, this publication makes the case for a new idea, “Europragmatism v.0”:
“The pursue of technological progress, prosperity and intergenerational justice.”
This is the first version (v.0) of an open source idea that should be refined.
Europragmatism v.0 is based on the following 5 principles:
🤝Egoistic altruism: the pursue of self-realisation via the success of the self and of others. The individual shares (at various degrees) his DNA, ideas, past and future with the societies that surround him. The success of oneself or of others varies to the individual only quantitatively and not in nature. Europragmatism recognises the strong quantitative ties among European societies in terms of common values, shared culture and history.
⌛️Transitional inequality: inequality should be tolerated only insofar it is necessary for the prosperity of both haves and have nots. Such inequality should be considered a temporary condition for technological progress and should be reduced as the means of production achieve abundance or as increase in production is not anymore conditional to human labour or intellect (e.g., due to automation).
🚀Technological progress: technological and scientific progress is the only way to truly increase production, achieve abundance for all and improve the human condition.
⚡️Energy expansionism: societies should be energy-ambitious and improve the technologies for energy capture aiming at abundance and sustainability (intended as green energy or, if not economically viable, civilisational progress that enables the mitigation of the consequences of climate change).
🔬Social experimentalism: societies and individuals should be free to experiment with social norms and institutions but should not consider such changes as irreversible if they prove to serve objectives of each system. Democracy and freedom of expression should be considered as the means of these agnostic social iterations.
